Unboxing and opening Seagate 5TB One Touch, Backup Plus and Expansion hard drives, shucking, shuck

In this video I will unbox and shuck or open a Seagate 5TB One Touch and Seagate 5TB Expansion portable drive. Inside both enclosures I found Seagate 5TB Barracuda drives which look identical. I will be using these drives to create a 5TB RAID 1 volume inside a MediaSonic Dual Bay 2.5 Raid Enclosure with a USB C connection. This procedure is similar for all Seagate 1TB, 2TB, 3TB, 4TB, 5TB drives.
DO NOT use Western Digital drives, they have a proprietary hard mounted connector instead of a standard SATA connector and cannot be used in a PC or another enclosure.
I used this video to help me open the One Touch drive, the video describes a Backup Plus drive but both drives are identical so thanks to this user for that video, its a lot shorter and very useful:
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Thanks for watching and please feel free to ask any questions.

[@TheRealJohnHooper]

As a non PC tech enthusiasts.. I am quite shocked and amazed that you can acutally buy a 5TB external HD.. I still have my 500GB USB 2.0 Samsung drive, and just realized that thing is 11 years old.. Time flies.. It also did cost almost the same back in the days.. Just unbelievable..

[@jamescameron1861]

Many thanks for this. I'll end up shucking a few of these for a storage project in a few months

[@DaveSimonH]

I'm glad I did a quick scan of Amazon reviews before buying a HDD, as I was initially looking at a WD drive but then read they used proprietary connectors. I have no plans (at least currently) to shuck the drive but I went with a Seagate just incase the enclosure was ever damaged, then I could simply get another enclosure.

[@eldino]

Thank you for the video, extremely useful!

[@rednroll1]

Thanks for opening these up and showing what's inside. I just purchased (2) Seagate Barracuda 2.5in 5TB HDDs off of Amazon for $140 a piece, going to put them in a RAID 0 enclosure. Realized the Amazon drives have no Seagate warranty on them. Found these Seagate One Touch 5TB portable HDDs for $109 at Sam's Club. Looking at the model# on the label of the drives you opened (ST5000LM00), I'm now able to see it's the exact same internal 5TB 5400RPM 128MB Cache Barracuda drive I just purchase for $140. Thinking I'm going to return these Amazon drives and just go purchase the portable versions at Sam's and open them up like you did and put them in my RAID 0 enclosure instead. In that scenario, I'm paying less and know I'm getting a brand new non refurbed OEM drive. If I void the warranty, won't matter since I have that scenario now with my purchase from Amazon but at least I have a chance of putting it back together if I'm very careful and attempt a warranty return if needed. As an extra bonus, I will have 2 additional HDD enclosures if ever needed. Paying less and getting more in return seems like a good idea to me. Amazing how the exact same HDD without a case costs more than the portable version with a case.

[@alimadrid9855]

Thank you I just bought one like this today Seagate 5TB One Touch

[@Bong-Wi]

Thanks for the open. Now, I can buy Expansion for my NAS to change the broken old hard disk.

[@chankc4481]

thank you for your opening, seen likely internal protection of "one touch" is better than "expansion" & "backup plus" so much

[@samuelmm82]

This is a great video! Thank you a lot!

[@nuucner]

very helpful vide, thanks a lot) i have one with 2tb volume too, and after two years of exploitation im ready to buy another one but 4 tb for safer backups) i thinks this hdd is pretty reliable because i have one internal (barracuda 3.5 7200rpm) of NOV 2019 manufactured and its still working good (exept for one recent problems with strange sounds, which was fixed by native windows tools automaticly btw, but nothing was lost which is main thing)

[@ZadakLeader]

Thanks for this. I am thinking of taking the metal cover off and drill holes for passive ventilation in it. I did something similar with another external hdd enclosure and it did make a difference!

[@camkb5299]

Very informative video....you got a new sub!

[@botgames2802]

very informative. thanks

[@TheRealJohnHooper]

There is a new 2021 model: STKM5000400 or STKN5000400

[@etv7846]

good thing you warned people not to buy western digital portable drives. many people see WD cheap and buy them not knowing that western digital drives cannot be shuckle like seagate ones.

[@mikehang1908]

Thank you, I was just wondering what model disk was being used in this unit. Basically the Compute Series of Barracuda Drives.

[@manasshrivastava9013]

can you please link the sata enclosure

[@MikeleKonstantyFiedorowiczIV]

is case aluminium or plastic?

[@MultiVde]

Very useful thank you

[@christ6598]

Is the hdd same with st5000lm000? Just like the seagate barracuda 5tb 2.5?